Journal of Language and Politics

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Language and Politics is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
(De)legitimising EUrope in times of crisis43
Review of Shi-xu (2024): The Routledge Handbook of Cultural Discourse Studies27
Limits, frontiers, antagonism27
How quotation marks do mockery in online politicized discourse24
Utopia, war, and justice18
Shaping gender policies at the COPs14
Review of House & Kádár (2025): Language and Politics: A Cross-cultural Pragmatic Perspective12
News on fake news12
Critical junctures beyond the black box11
A meta-discursive analysis of engagement markers in QAnon anti-immigration comments11
Demarcating rights in divided social worlds9
Review of Howard (2023): Multilingualism in the Andes: Policies, Politics, Power9
Review of Lütge, Merse & Rauschert (2022): Global Citizenship in Foreign Language Education: Concepts, Practices, Connections8
Attack of the critics8
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Review of Demata (2023): Discourses of Borders and the Nation in the USA: A Discourse-historical Analysis7
Serbian Progressive Party’s shameless normalization of expressing sycophancy toward the leader7
Review of Butler (2024): Political Discourse Analysis: Legitimization Strategies in Crisis and Conflict7
Perception of charisma in text and speech7
“You are fake news”7
Review of Price & Harbisher (2021): Power, Media, and the Covid-19 Pandemic: Framing Public Discourse7
“The rock of stability?”6
Discourses and practices of the ‘New Normal’6
“These are not just slogans”6
Setting boundaries between crime and rights6
Metalinguistic tactics in the Hong Kong protest movement6
Review of Fotiadou (2022): The Language of Employability: A Corpus-Based Analysis of UK University Websites6
Equivocation in media communication6
Political discourse analysis of female political leaders in the Global South6
Multimodality as civic participation5
Examining political influence on language5
The discursive representation of migrants, refugees and asylum seekers in Austrian news coverage: 2010–2015–20205
Review of Chiluwa (2021): Discourse and Conflict: Analysing Text and Talk of Conflict, Hate and Peace-building5
Review of Jones (2021): Viral Discourse5
Constitutive representation of womanhood5
Visions of the good future5
Romania’s first female prime minister’s meme-ification5
Enemy narratives5
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The (anti-)political logic of authoritarian institutionalism4
The aesthetic values of the semiotic choices in Arab protests4
The construction of agency in the discourse of Barbados’ prime minister Mia Mottley4
Navigating the ideological tide4
Reimagining Europe and its (dis)integration4
A fence of opportunity4
Review of Closs Stephens (2022): National Affects: The Everyday Atmospheres of Being Political4
‘If you see [blank], say [blank]’4
From Barack Obama to Donald Trump4
The rise of the new Polish far-right4
Discourse theory and the turn to practice4
Rhetorical (ir)responsibility in the Australian Parliament4
On the language of liberalism3
Review of Knoblock (2020): Language of Conflict: Discourses of the Ukrainian Crisis3
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Farmers as symbol of ‘the people’3
Review of Handford & Gee (2023): The Routledge Handbook of Discourse Analysis3
“Hope dies – Action begins”3
Review of Caimotto & Raus (2023): Lifestyle Politics in Translation: The Shaping and Re-shaping of Ideological Discourse3
Negotiating trust through COVID-19 press briefings3
From controversy to common ground3
Review of Chun (2022): Applied Linguistics and Politics3
Review of Seargeant (2024): The future of language: How technology, politics and utopianism are transforming the way we communicate3
Review of Nartey (2022): Political Myth-making, Populist Performance and Nationalist Resistance: Examining Kwame Nkrumah’s Construction of the African Unity Dream3
The construction and legitimation of Elisa Loncón as a Mapuche female political leader on Instagram3
From more to less ‘Civil’ borderline discourses in mainstream media and government3
Review of Stavrakakis (2024): Populist Discourse: Recasting Populism Research2
“We pursue justice”2
Review of Arnall & Chenoweth (2025): Universality and Translation: Sites of Struggle in Philosophy and Politics2
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Review of Russell (2024): Fighting Words: A Critical Approach to Linguistic Transgression2
Subverting EU legal concepts2
Culture of Sustainability and Discourses of Social Change2
Discourses on gender in climate change adaptation projects of Bangladesh2
New opportunities for discourse studies2
Politician, activist… or hero?2
Widening the North/South Divide? Representations of the role of the EU during the Covid-19 crisis in Spanish media2
Reporting the others’ speech, uncovering China’s world dream2
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Review of Romano (2024): Metaphor in Socio-Political Contexts2
Review of Demasi, Burke & Tileagă (2021): Political communication: Discursive perspectives1
The arrival of the populist radical right in Chile1
Humanitarian discourse as racism disclaimer1
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Review of Ilie (2024): Manufacturing Dissent: Manipulation and counter-manipulation in times of crisis1
Giulia Cecchettin’s feminicide in the Italian online press1
Review of Feldman (2020): The Rhetoric of Political Leadership: Logic, and Emotion in Public Discourse1
‘They will not survive here’1
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Populist radical right beyond Europe1
Review of Musolff & Breeze (2022): Pandemic and Crisis Discourse Communicating COVID-19 and Public Health Strategy1
Gender, language, and representation in the United States Senate1
Media portrayals of the Hong Kong Occupy Central Movement’s social actors1
“Türkiye,” not “Turkey”1
The groundwork of Putin’s war1
Mass identifications and mythical violence1
Entrepreneur or capitalist?1
The populist radical right in Australia1
Return migrants from the United States to Mexico1
Discourse Theory and the Turn to Practice1
Language, Politics and Media1
The politics of fear in Hong Kong protest representations1
Review of Statham (2022): Critical discourse analysis: A practical introduction to power in language1
The static welfare claimant vs. the dynamic migrant1
Review of Guenther (2024): The Language of Climate Politics: Fossil-Fuel Propaganda and How to Fight It1
Discourses of Fake News1
Jair Bolsonaro and the defining attributes of the populist radical right in Brazil1
Social media, politics, and the rise of the anti-refugee far-right in Turkey1
Review of Stefanie (2021): Discourses of the Arab revolutions in media and politics1
Review of Carpentier & Wimmer (2025): Democracy and Media in Europe: A Discursive-Material Approach1
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Sailing toIthaka1
Review of Li, Lui & Fung (2020): Systemic functional political discourse: A text-based study1
Radical Right-Wing Populism and Borders1
Far-right discourse in Brazil1
Polarising metaphors in the Venezuelan Presidential Crisis1
A topic modeling-assisted diachronic study of “One Country, Two Systems” represented in Anglo-American newspapers1
The utility of (political) dogwhistles – a life cycle perspective1
France’s “drôle de guerre”1
Linguistic landscapes of activism1
Policy discourse in times of crisis0
Interests convergence in global human rights politics0
Review of Cheng & Machin (2023): The law and critical discourse studies0
The Tennessee three0
“Almost a mother tongue”0
Community organising and radical democracy0
The awkward rhetoric of Spanish liberalism0
“Britain was already cherry-picking from the European tree without bothering to water the soil or tend to its branches”0
Activism or slacktivism?0
The use of metaphors to construct crisis discourses in describing COVID-19 vaccines in the Chinese and the American news media0
The good, the bad, and the ugly0
The European migrant crisis in Polish parliamentary discourse0
Mearsheimer, Putin, ideology, and the war in Ukraine0
Review of Wachowski & Sullivan (2022): Metonymies and Metaphors for Death Around the World0
Fighting talk0
Review of Matthiessen, Wang, Ma & Mwinlaaru (2022): Systemic Functional Insights on Language and Linguistics0
Review of Wodak & Forchtner (2021): The Routledge Handbook of Language and Politics0
Review of Serafis (2023): Authoritarianism on the Front Page: Multimodal Discourse and Argumentation in Times of Multiple Crises in Greece0
The populist radical right beyond Europe0
BIOMETRIC CITIZENS in smart cities0
Review of Baker, Vessey & McEnery (2021): The Language of Violent Jihad0
Review of Bielsa (2023): A Translational Sociology: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Politics and Society0
Claims of ownership, claims of dignity0
De/legitimising EUrope through the performance of crises0
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Emergent Twitter publics through political scandal0
Review of Íñigo-Mora & Lastres-López (2024): Discourse Approaches to an Emerging Age of Populist Politics0
A Europeanisation of American politics?0
Inside the echo chamber0
Of infiltrators and wild beasts0
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Review of Forchtner (2023): Visualising far-right environments: Communication and the politics of nature0
“Serial rorters or mere mortals?” Gendered mediation in comments to newspapers about how male and female government leaders handle money0
Review of Fetzer & Weizman (2019): The Construction of ‘Ordinariness’ across Media Genres0
Beyond the law0
Doing gender at the far right0
Integrating CDA with ideological rhetorical criticism in the investigation of Abe Cabinet’s discursive construction in “Indo-Pacific Strategy”0
Review of Stibbe (2024): Econarrative: Ethics, Ecology, and the Search for New Narratives to Live By0
Cultivation of sustainability in a discourse of change0
Review of Korhonen, Kotze & Tyrkkö (2023): Exploring Language and Society with Big Data: Parliamentary Discourse Across Time and Space0
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Populism and contingency0
Review of Koller (2023): Voices of Supporters: Populist Parties, Social Media and the 2019 European Elections0
Review of Filardo-Llamas, Morales-López & Floyd (2021): Discursive Approaches to Sociopolitical Polarization and Conflict0
In the name of the nobility of the cause, what I did is right0
ICT environmentalism and the sustainability game0
“Does being pretty help?”0
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When pro-vaccine media discourses meet vaccine hesitancy0
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)0
Studying affect through discourse theory0
Review of Chambers & Demir (2024): Translation and Decolonisation: Interdisciplinary Approaches0
Legitimizing the interventions recommended in “European Research Area Policy Agenda 2022–2024”0
Review of Ajšić (2021): Language and Ethnonationalism in Contemporary West Central Balkans: A Corpus-based Approach0
Moral panic and (in)security0
From “them” to “us”?0
Supplementing the tropes0
Exploring the evolution of the concept of liberty in the U.S. presidential inaugurals0
When in parliamentary debate there is no debate0
Epistemic stance and public discourse on irregular migration in one of Europe’s outermost regions0
Discourse of self-legitimation0
Examining the communication of female political leaders in the Global South0
Review of Al-Shboul (2023): The Politics in Climate Change Metaphors in the U.S. Discourse: Conceptual Metaphor Theory and Analysis from an Ecolinguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis Perspective0
Dimensions of time and space in narratives for climate action0
‘Presidential’ is in the ear of the beholder0
“The youths are wiser now”0
Commemoration and radical right-wing populism in European borderlands0
Reverberations0
Review of Feng (2023): Multimodal Chinese Discourse: Understanding Communication and Society in Contemporary China0
When performance studies meet discourse theory0
Review of Deringer & Ströbel (2022): International Discourses of Authoritarian Populism: Varieties and Approaches0
Revealing China’s diplomatic narratives of the Belt and Road Initiative0
Discourse and transformation0
The discursive construction of solidarity by Ghanaian female parliamentarians0
Review of Zottola (2021): Transgender Identities in the Press: A Corpus-Based Discourse Analysis0
“There is new technology here that can perform miracles”0
Review of Charteris-Black (2020): Metaphors of Coronavirus0
Positioning antagonistic discourses in the (de)bounded spaces of power0
Surprises, symbols, and mainstreaming0
Attitudinal stance towards the anti-extradition bill movement in China Daily and South China Morning Post0
What’s in a name?0
Review of Baysha (2022): War, Peace, and Populist Discourse in Ukraine0
“A massive field of action”0
Populating ‘solidarity’ in political debate0
Environmental conservation and urban development as competing stories of place and space in Singapore0
Anthropomorphism, anthropocentrism, and human-orientation in environmental discourse0
Review of Fariña (2023): Psychological Borders in Europe and the United States: Contemporary Nationalism, Nativism, and Populism0
Political homophobia0
National identity revisited0
Review of Li & Hu (2021): Reappraising Self and Others: A Corpus-based Study of Chinese Political Discourse in English Translation0
Symbolic-descriptive representation in the Chilean Constitutional Convention0
Right-wing populist media events in Schengen Europe0
From social awareness to authoritarian other0
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Review of Stavrakakis & Katsambekis (2024): Research Handbook on Populism0
Reactions to interruptions in Finnish, French and German parliamentary debates0
“First forced displacements, then slaughter”0
Temporal agency of social movements0
Review of Verschueren (2021): Complicity in Discourse and Practice0
Review of Tachtiris (2024): Translation and race0
Framing the political conflict discourse in Chinese media0
A meaningless buzzword or a meaningful label? How do Spanish politicians usepopulismoandpopulistaon Twitter?0
Review of Augé (2023): Metaphor and Argumentation in Climate Crisis Discourse0
The representation of migrant identities in UK Government documents about Brexit0
“We shall not flag or fail, we shall go on to the end”0
Review of Pennycook (2021): Critical Applied Linguistics: A Critical Reintroduction0
Borderless fear?0
Review of Almanna & House (2023): Translation Politicised and Politics Translated0
The power of language0
Discourse Theory and Strategic Communication0
Disalignment in the EU0
Legitimation in revolutionary discourse0
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Border-making as illiberal politics0
Language and culture wars0
Review of Wu (2023): Media Representations of Macau’s Gaming Industry in Greater China: A Corpus-based Critical Discourse Analysis0
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Review of Rajandran & Lee (2023): Discursive Approaches to Politics in Malaysia: Legitimising Governance0
Review of Yu (2022): Moral Metaphor System: A Conceptual Metaphor Approach0
Capturing power in diplomatic language use0
The delegitimisation of Europe in a pro-European country0
Revisiting the rhetorical construction of political consent0
Review of Van Dijk (2024): Discourse and Ideologies of the Radical Right0
Unveiling ideological shifts in news trans‑editing0
Taking the left way out of Europe0
Review of Feldman (2021): When Politicians Talk: The Cultural Dynamics of Public Speaking0
The construction of Hong Kong’s “one country, two systems” in China Daily0
Review of van Dijk (2024): Social movement discourse: An introduction0
Review of Akbari (2020): Iran’s Language Planning Confronting English Abbreviations: Persian Terminology Planning0
Review of Parnell (2024): Constructing Brexit Britain: A Corpus-Assisted Approach to National Identity Discourse0
“We” in the EU: (De) legitimizing power relations and status0
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